UKNM: Search Engine Stuff

[Danny Sullivan]

I've been in a cave while people have kindly pointed to my site over the

past week -- thanks! Some other answers to recent search engine questions

that may be useful:


> About 18 months ago I heard about Yahoo! launching an express

> submissions service in the States.  I've hunted high and low

> on yahoo.com but I can find no mention.  Anyone know if it's

> still available?


Yes, as has been noted previously -- but also good news, it's finally been

made available to those of us based out of the UK. Previously, only US-based

businesses could use it.


Submit to any category at Yahoo.com or Yahoo.co.uk (oops, uk.yahoo.com --

poor co.uk gets no respect, anymore). Push the Proceed To Step One button

that comes up, then choose the Business Express Submission button. Enter

your info, pay your US $199, and you'll get a yes/no answer within 7 days

(almost all decent sites get in). More help on the programme here:


http://help.yahoo.com/help/bizex/


Have no money??? There's a special UK address for submission support -- if

you submitted, submitted and given up home, try dropping an email as

described here:


http://help.yahoo.com/help/uk/url/url-12.html


(but honestly, pay the $199 and save your time)


> Has anybody seen stats that rank search engines

> by uk useage?


Media Metrix Europe has good stats for top overall sites in the UK, and you

can usually spot the search engines among them -- eventually, I really will

get a page up within my site that summarizes these. Maybe even this month.

Meanwhile, Media Metrix Europe is at:


http://www.mediametrix.com/home.jsp?language=uk


> I have also recently seen some UK research suggesting that the uk

> does use search engine to find sites over other options (ads,

> referrals, etc)


Yes, good UK stats summarized here:

http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/00/07-forrester.html


> Any one else  know of any good sources of user data for

> Search Engines??


Some of the sources listed on this compilation of search engine stats might

be helpful:


http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/seindex.html


cheers,

danny


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Danny Sullivan

Editor, SearchEngineWatch.com

http://searchenginewatch.com



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